enterprise-ubuntu team mailing list archive

[Bolesław Tokarski <boleslaw.tokarski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On 01/16/2013 04:20 PM, Zieba, Pawel wrote:
> Maybe a DaaS would be a good option?
>
> We are evaluating this concept right now.
Which DaaS are you evaluating? I would love to have some first-hand 
experience from someone I know.

On 01/16/2013 06:26 PM, David Burke wrote:
> Proxmox - This is my preferred solution for server virtualization. 
> It's a gui for KVM and openvz. I minimally trained sys admin can set 
> up a new VM in minutes with it.

I understand it misses the desktop virtualization features like dynamic 
VM provisioning and some user-portal?

> LTSP - Have you considered this? It's not virtualization it's just 
> multi user Linux. I use it in a computer lab type scenario. I've 
> posted about it 
> http://davidmburke.com/2012/02/26/computer-lab-on-the-cheap/

Thanks for the link, I was astonished by the fact that LTSP has such an 
extensive documentation site on help.ubuntu.com, I envy them :)

> The issues it has (video processing, external devices are hit or miss) 
> are likely going to be issues with any solution for desktop 
> virtualization.

I guess yes-and-no. Thanks to desktop virtualization we got those design 
that offloads video processing to the client (terminal). However, I am 
aware that you can use the SPICE protocol to pass audio&video from a 
physical machine, though I guess this is not that often used.

> I am also a fool and don't use a server with a decent GPU made for 
> this sort of thing.

Let somebody correct me if I am wrong, but I do not know how the server 
GPU has anything to do with the client display. You are not using the 
server's monitor anyway, right? I might be missing something, I guess 
also there was a reason for Martinx Thiago to provide the multiple GPUs 
to his server. Anyone has an idea?

Cheers,
Ballock